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Enjoying the Long Vacation in Cambridge, idleness banished from Cambridge, reading Thucydides and doing composition with Shilleto, weekly examinations in classics and mathematics

Reading Aristotle's Ethics I with Shilleto, making slow progress at Mathematics, Walton says CJM has no chance of being among the Senior Optimes while Shilleto thinks he will be in the second class in the Classical Tripos, worried that his performance will disappoint JHM

Drafts of poems and printed poems by Shilleto, Robert Burn, Sir William Hamilton, Morris Moore, Richard Okes, as well as those signed with initals only: J. B., H., and W. S. [William Selwyn?]. Poems include Hamilton's "Sonnet on the Meeting of the British Association at Cambridge, 1833", W. S.'s "Experience of Magnetic Belt", four lines by H. starting "The Lytteltons give all the time up to cricket," Robert Burn's "Piscator," Morris Moore junor's formal address to Thompson, 30 July 1869. On the verso of one set of poems is a printed list of freshmen, 1882.

The collection also includes a letter (in French) dated 9 March 1869 from A. Bos, Italian translator of G. H. Lewes's Physiology of Common Life asking about a report from the Evening Standard that the students have been served donkey at Trinity.
The collection is accompanied by two letters from W. Wollaston Groome to Mr Dykes dated May 1919 relating to the provenance of the verses, and his personal memories of W. H. Thompson.

Trinity College Cambridge. Working hard on Thucydides, reading Demosthenes with Shilleto (a wonderful scholar) question as to who should pay income tax on the Gregory scholarship money, sends chant by Walmisley [wanting].

Trinity College. Presumes Peterborough to be in a terrible state due to floods, Trinity paddocks, avenue and Trinity Lane and Midsummer Common all under water, Shilleto on Tacitus, H M Butler to attend the lying-in-state of the Duke of Wellington.

Cambridge. Arthur Butler Ireland Scholar at Oxford, encloses a "mock" examination paper published by Shilleto.

Cambridge. Wishes him luck for his examinations, report of the fellowship election at Trinity, Shilleto does not care much for Calverly.

Reports that he only heard a week ago that Young 'had found it advisable (and also feasible) to degrade.' Claims that he was very glad to hear the news, since even if he had been able 'to go in by "making an effort" ', it would have been a very unsatisfactory [culmination] to three years work. Sympathises with him that he will have to work a year more at the old curriculum. Hopes that he is progressing. Reports that he met Cowell in London on Saturday, and he was wondering whether Young would go abroad with him.

Recounts that he found Arthur [Sidgwick] 'only just able to work' when he arrived in Cambridge on Saturday, as he had played fives, which brought on his irregular circulation. Believes that 'it is just about an even chance whether he gets the Craven or not'. Reports that they were quite surprised at having the senior after all in Trinity. Hopes that Barker will conform, and states that Jebb was in good spirits and reading hard. Recounts that [Richard Shilleto?] 'reports favourably of his freshness', but is not very strong in health.

Refers to the fact that Young was at Eton with [Smijth?] Windham, and asks if he thinks he is 'MAD, or only mad.' Declares that 'Wilson is convinced he was a lunatic', but every other Eton man Sidgwick has seen states the idea to be ludicrous.

Relates a conversation he had while dining at Merton College, Oxford. States that he thinks the speeches, especially Coleridge's 'disgraceful'. Wishes that he were at Oxford, because 'they are always having exciting controversies which keep them alive.' Relates that Jowett and his foes divide the [attention] of the common rooms with Mansel and Goldwin Smith. Reports that he has just read 'G. S.' "Rational Religion" ', which, he claims, 'seems smashing', but over-controversial. States that '[p]eople consider Mansel's chance of a bishopric as lessened.' Remarks that in his view the tutors at Oxford work harder and the men less than those at Cambridge. Asks Young whether he read W.S. Clarke's Latin Oration.

Reports that he went up to Cambridge 'to have a quiet study of Auguste Comte', with whose he has rather less sympathy than before. States that he 'tried to fancy being a Positivist and adoring Guttemberg [sic], the inventor of printing, but...found the conception impossible.' Intends to go up [to Cambridge] on Saturday. States that he thinks better of Horace than most men; discerns in his works 'a good deal of a peculiar fresh humour that [ ]', but sees that it is calculated to disgust many men, and wishes Trevelyan could know it.

Does not get on so well without a private tutor, realises he will not do well in the Mathematical Tripos, proposes to read with Shilleto

Thinks JHM right in postponing Shilleto's tuition, prefers him to attend W H Thompson's lectures on Pindar, Thompson could advise him on his classical reading

Metre of the Latin epigram, has been reading Classics with Shilleto, slow progress in mathematical studies is frustrating, Previous Examination imminent, Atkinson least fitted to be a tutor

Increase in bedmaker's allowance, election of new University Librarian, thinks Joseph Edlestone would have been elected if nominated, writing latin prose with Shilleto

49 Marina, St Leonards. Sends epigrams by Shilleto.

Encloses four epigrams [wanting], reads with Shilleto and attends Thompson's lectures, concentrating on classics at present but will have to look at mathematics next term

MS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan accompanying the four letters on this and the facing page: 'Letters of Shilleto, the famous Cambridge classical coach to George Otto Trevelyan as an undergraduate'.

MS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan accompanying the four letters on this and the facing page: 'Letters of Shilleto, the famous Cambridge classical coach to George Otto Trevelyan as an undergraduate'.

MS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan accompanying the four letters on this and the facing page: 'Letters of Shilleto, the famous Cambridge classical coach to George Otto Trevelyan as an undergraduate'.

MS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan accompanying the four letters on this and the facing page: 'Letters of Shilleto, the famous Cambridge classical coach to George Otto Trevelyan as an undergraduate'.